The self-(dis)assembling chair

Link to Science Daily write-up. Link to the lead engineer's art-site w/ video page. Link to Discovery Channel segment.

Jean Tinguely's "Homage to New York" was a self-destructing machine set off at the 1960 garden party at the Museum of Modern Art. It was first conceived of as a drawing machine.

Pete Townshend of "The Who" destroys a guitar.